Public inquiry for toll rise plan
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A public inquiry will be held into plans to raise tolls by 50% on a bridge and ferry crossings between Plymouth and Cornwall.
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Mylor woman bids farewell to hospital volunteering
Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A volunteer from Mylor Bridge was wished a fond farewell after 14 years spent meeting and greeting at the doors of the Royal Cornwall Hospital’s Trelawny entrance.
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Three quarters full circle
peggy rides to paris (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The seasons have gone three quarters full circle: the Scillonian is so far into the harbour she is practically on the Ross Bridge and the baulks are in place protecting Mousehole harbour from the winter storms. I am back to cycling in the dark, usually in wind and rain, looking a complete plonker in my high-viz jacket and fluorescent ankle bands, the road bike is moth-balled away awaiting the return...
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defecation in a public place
dust magic (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
things that have made me happy today MW Bewitched talking to Rajinder Shark Cage talking to Deej email from Bela talking to Volk Radio playing Carpenters and Teardrop Explodes talking to Redg The new kettle Food The tannoy the video of wild chair ___________________ things I wanna do because of these things day off make music new places sleep on couch tea suspension bridge walk coffee visit Northampton...
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Round Britain Rallied
Dog Without A Bone (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The closing date for the Round Britain Rally , in which participants are challenged to find and photograph one or more landmarks for every county in England, Wales and Scotland, has passed and I have dispatched a CD of photos to the committee. This means that I can actually reveal the places I visited! At last! Google Map here . Green bikes are ones I've ticked off, red blobs I didn't manage. There's...
Explore : Ashdown Forest, Berkshire, Bluntisham, Box, Brent, Buckenham, Cambridgeshire, Capel St Andrew, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cross, Devon, Devon, East Sussex, Harringworth, Highland, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, Newlyn, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Old, Rainow, Roadside, Rye, Suffolk, Sussex, Uffculme, Wiltshire, Windmill, Windsor, Windsor
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Shorts: Spitting swine flu risk; Joe Cole ready to sign contract; Aguero a January target; The most open title race ever?; Who would be a referee?
Chelsea Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
It's all quiet on the western front. I'm in Cornwall for a couple of weeks, house- and cat-sitting. I don't know what it is about being down here but I feel cut off from all things Chelsea and football. I'm several miles from a pub with a big screen and Sky Sports. The house I'm staying in has a flakey net connection at best and no PCs - Macs only - so I struggle to watch internet streams of games....
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Smeaton's Lighthouse lit by candles again
Devon and Cornwall Viewpoint (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Our local media have been faithfully reporting the anniversary of the first lighting of Smeaton's Lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef. To be precise it was 250 years ago from this last Friday that 24 candles were first lit in the lighthouse and on Thursday evening the great and good congregated at the lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe to re-enact the lighting of those candles. I won't repeat here...
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Communists Get Their Comeuppance As Royal Mail Use African Immigrants To Break Union Strike
Dave Strickson (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
30,000 part-timers to keep post moving in run-up to Christmas Strike-hit Royal Mail bosses have doubled the number of part-time workers they are hiring in the run-up to Christmas. Managers are taking immediate action to recruit 30,000 short-term staff as the ongoing industrial dispute threatens to bring further chaos to the postal system at its busiest time. Bosses usually bring in 15,000 workers for...
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South West Holiday: Powderham Castle, Devon - edited highlights
Karon and Johns walks (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Photos to follow Sunday 16th August It was the last day of the Temporary Holiday Site so after going to the DA coffee morning we hitched up and set off. We decided not to go to Cornwall as it would be too long a drive along busy, narrow roads but headed instead to Powderham castle, near Exeter. The journey was very good until the end when I missed the turning. We ended up driving to Dawlish before...
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Newsletter 31
Andy Phillips' blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Photo: Me and Petty Officer 'Buzz' Honey (Truro lad) and child on bridge of HMS Quorn Dear friends I thought I would do this newsletter in a different format – as a kind of personal letter. I have now been onboard HMS Albion now since May and it has been a busy time. One of the difficult things is the ship’s programme can change in an instant because of mechanical problems. Also, because...
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Frankie did not want to cross the bridge that killed her and her brother
This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
AN INQUEST in Cornwall has heard how 17-year-old Frankie Chapell did not want to cross a flooded bridge that claimed the lives of herself, her brother and a friend.
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Three friends drowned in flash floods
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Three friends were swept to their deaths when their car was caught in a flash flood in Cornwall, hearing told A man today told how he watched his three best friends being swept to their death when their car was caught in a flash flood. Oliver Gardner, 21, scrambled out of the front passenger seat of their Volvo as it was carried away by a surge of water caused by a freak storm in April. Driver Ryan...
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Brunel Bridge Brush Up
Plymothian Transit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
"There are about 30 coats of paint on the rail bridge across the River Tamar” Highton-Ridley Photography Blogs October Free Draw (Recommended) Omnibuses2.0 Communication No fanfares Samples of paint from the Royal Albert Bridge , which links Devon and Cornwall, are being analysed in an attempt to establish its original colour. The samples, collected by architectural paint researcher Patrick...
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Study into bridge colour mystery
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Samples of paint from the Royal Albert Bridge, which links Devon and Cornwall, are analysed to find out its original colour in 1859.
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Lostwithiel (North Cornwall)
Panoramic Earth (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Lostwithiel - Guide and map of Lostwithiel with a 360° panorama of Lostwithiel. Sight, attraction and travel guide to Lostwithiel with panoramic images and pictures linked to a Google map. Virtual tour of Lostwithiel in England. Panorama photographed by Peter Watts who wrote: Panorama taken by the banks of the River Fowey in Lostwithiel. The picture was taken late in the day, and shows the ancient...